Windows 7 Pagefile.

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Dear Friends,

I am very curious to know that ' if i disable pagefile in windows, will it benefit my system performance? '

I have this system as of now :

AMD X2 7750
ASUS M3N78EM
4 GB Corsair XMS2 DDRII800 (i am thinking to buy 4 GB more to compensate on disabling pagefile)
Hitachi 80x2 (Raid 0)
WD 1TB
WD 640AAKS
WIN7 64
I do a lot of video conversions for my PSP, Audio editing using Soundfoge and watch HD movies.....thats it. I do play games randomly like Age of Empires and stuff...

Please advice....:)
 
U have 4GB ram, i disable file paging with 2GB ram, i noticed after disabling paging HD movies open much faster. Just disable it.
 
It won't make any difference..but by default windows allocates 100MB for pagefile which is not visible..
 
Windows tends to swap out least recently used memory out to HDD to keep more RAM available for allocation at the drop of a hat. By disabling paging, you'll be ensuring that all of your loaded programs and their data is always in RAM, but should a memory allocation (especially for the OS itself) fail due to system running out of RAM, expect an instant crash.
 
On paper that is correct but i have not noticed a single crash even with 2gb ram, not pagin on hdd since 5-6 months now.
WickedTA said:
Windows tends to swap out least recently used memory out to HDD to keep more RAM available for allocation at the drop of a hat. By disabling paging, you'll be ensuring that all of your loaded programs and their data is always in RAM, but should a memory allocation (especially for the OS itself) fail due to system running out of RAM, expect an instant crash.
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"I do a lot of video conversions for my PSP, Audio editing using Soundfoge and watch HD movies.....thats it. I do play games randomly like Age of Empires and stuff..."

In that case, it will help for sure...
 
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